topics promote ideas of pursuing unacceptable actions to impressionable children. If teens are hidden from the dreadful influences from around the world they will be safe and too oblivious to commit the actions themselves. Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange holds an array of controversial topics ranging from swearing to alcohol abuse to graphic violence. Children must be shielded
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A Clockwork Orange: The Feelingless and Affectless Man‚ Living In a Mechanical Society In today’s society the value of one’s being has been abused. No longer do we foster the idea of nurturing our young‚ rather society has become detached from showing and sharing emotion. Becoming a society focused on technology‚ people have become merely objects of a mechanical society. Technology has reached an era of denaturing human nature; technology has made society lazy by making everything substitutable
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Occupy A Clockwork Orange: Meaningful Violence in A Clockwork Orange Violence is unavoidable in our society. It hits us from every direction‚ you can’t watch TV for more than an hour without seeing some sort of violence nor can you listen to the radio without hearing of violent acts. However‚ George Gerbner asserts that seeing all of the violence is not necessarily detrimental to our minds. To Gerbner violence that‚ “Individually crafted‚ historically inspired‚ sparingly and selectively used
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A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive‚ totalitarian super-state. In this society‚ ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency‚ blind to the insidious growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang‚ which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals through the streets‚ robbing and beating men and
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anarchy‚ rebellion and disorder of a society. As we compare these two opposite society types‚ there are two books that are the poster child of utopia and dystopia. Those two books are Kurt Vonnegut’s "Player Piano"‚ and Anthony Burgess’s "A Clockwork Orange". In Kurt Vonnegut’s "Player Piano" we follow the hero Paul Protues through his utopian society. Where in his society they have just recovered from a ten year war and now has been built up and ran completely by machines. Furthermore a super
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A Clockwork Orange "Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free." -Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature‚ his most famous is A Clockwork Orange. Burgess’s novel is a futuristic look at a Totalitarian government. The main character‚ Alex‚ is an "ultra-violent" thief who has no problem using force against innocent citizens
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Oranges "Oranges" begins with Gary Soto narrating one of his life experiences in this poem. He remembers a particular experience of walking side by side with a girl. There are two characters a twelve year old boy and his date. When the poem begins‚ the narrator is alone‚ and on his way to go pick up the girl. It was winter time and he only had two oranges with him‚ which his purpose was to share them with his date. The beginning of the poem is not very positive‚ though‚ but rather negative. In
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A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley has many of the same basic ideas as 1984 by George Orwell‚ but the two are more different than alike. In both books a totalitarian government is in complete control of the people‚ but A Brave New World shows a more positive side of this type of government than does 1984. 1984 doesn’t show any good things that have come out of having this form of government‚ and is a warning of what can happen if people stop thinking for themselves and don’t question the government
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The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick is a fascinating book that brings the stories of scientists to life during one of the most fascinating but tumultuous times for science in history. The Royal Society was something that only extraordinary people knew about. One of the big differences in life today compared to that era in science is that although common people on the street do not know the ins and outs of science‚ almost everybody shares a mutual respect for the depth and insightfulness
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In both ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘Brighton Rock’ characters are faced with choices that develop and intensify the plot‚ making the novels both stimulating and thought provoking to read. Brighton rock’s Pinkie is aware of the choices he makes‚ though he acknowledges the difference between right and wrong he falls foul to the temptation of wrongdoing. Pinkie choses damnation over salvation‚ the decision derives from the fact Pinkie is aware of God but refuses the idea of being pure and good nonetheless
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